All I Wanna Do (Live from the Ryman, 2019)

How ya doin', Nashville?
Welcome to the Mother Church
We're gonna go all the way back
Here we go
One, two, one, two, hit it!
This ain't no country club
And it ain't no disco
This is Nashville, Tennessee

"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos or nothing
He says his name is William, but I'm sure
It's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me, and I wonder if
He's ever had a day of fun in his whole life

We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
And the good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts and suits
And they drive up in their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company and records stores, too
But they're nothing like Billy and me

'Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels off his bottles of Bud
He lays each one up on the bar
And lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out

He watches the bottles of Bud
As they spin on the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads

'Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

And otherwise, the bar is ours
The day and the night and the car wash too
The Buds and the matches and the clean and dirty cars
The sun and the moon, sing it y'all

All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling there's a party going on, party goin' on
Right back there, I see the party

All I wanna do is have some fun
'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
'Til the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard